Mail-bag holder.



e. 1. SHUMAKER.

MAILBAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. 1914.

1,140,006. Patented May 18, 1915.

We STATES am GEORGE IRA SHUMAKER, 0F LONGPQINT, IOWA.

MAIL-BAG noLnEn.

Application filed May 11, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE IRA SHU- MAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Longpoint, in the county of Tama and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Bag tained by a combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a horizontal section of the device, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view thereof.

Referring specifically to the drawing, the

bag-holding device comprises a body por-.

tion 5 carrying a hook 6 and a guard 7 for the latter. The part 5 is rigidly secured to the crane arm or other support 8 and has a finger 9 which projects horizontally from the support, parallel to the track, and pointing in the direction of travel of the train. The guard is a flat plate which is pivoted to the part 5,.as indicated at 10, and projects therefrom parallel to the finger 9, in spaced relation therewith. A pin 11 carried by the inner end of the guard projects laterally therefrom and engages the finger 9, and thus limits the swing of the guard toward said finger.

In the finger 9 is a horizontal slot 12 in which the hook 6 is pivoted, as indicated at 13. The hook has a shank 14 carrying a ring 15 to facilitate the placing of the hook in operative position. The hook is pivoted to swing'in a horizontal plane and it is designed to be placed so as to project from one side of the finger into engagement with the guard 7. In the side of the guard which faces the finger is a recess 16 in which the end of the finger is adapted to seat.

7 The guard 7 yieldingly engages the hook 6, the back of the former being pressed by Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 837,789.

the free end of a bowed, resilient strip 17 carried by the part 5, the latter having a pin 18 whichenters an aperture in one end of the strip. The part 5 also carries a Patented May is, 1915.

threaded stud 19 provided with a wing nut 20. The stud passes loosely through the strip and the wing nut is designed to be screwed down against the strip to vary the degree of pressure of the latter against the guard.

In operation, the hookfi is retracted and the ring of the mail-bag or pouch is placed between the parts 7 and 9, after which the hook is swung to pass through the ring and to extend transversely between the parts 7 and 9, its free end seating in the recess 16. The guard 7 yieldingly engages the end'of the hook and securely holds it in position to support the mail-bag. When the catcher hook of the mailcar strikes the bag, the

portion having a" projecting finger, a pivoted hook carried by saidfinger and projecting from one side thereof, a. pivoted guard member carried by the body portion and extending along the finger in spaced relation therewith, a pin carried by the guard member and engageable with the finger for limiting the swing of said guard member in the direction of the finger, and means for yieldingly holding the guard member against the projecting end of the hook.

2. A mail bag holder comprising a body portion having a projecting finger, a pivoted hook carried by said finger and projecting from one side thereof, a pivoted guard member carried by the body portion and extending along the finger in spaced relation therewith, means l for yieldingly holding the guard member against the projecting end of the hook, said means comprising a fiat spring carried by the aforesaid In testimony whereof I aflix my signature body pgrtion and Saving an aperture, a in presence of tWo Witnesses.

threade pin carrie by the bod portion and passing through said apertui e, and a GEORGE IRA SHUMAKER' nut screwed on said pin and engageable Witnesses:

With the spring to vary the degree of pres- A. KUBICEK,

sure of the latter against the guard member. Mrs. A. KUBIOEK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each; by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

